Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-02-09
CONGRESS- THIS WEEK

A Washington dispatch of Sunday thus
foreshadows the work of Congress the pres
ent week:
Quite large amount of important work
has been laid out by the Senate for the COM
are to follow each other has not been fixed.
The morning hour of each day-that is, the
time before o'clock, which is not taken
up by the reading of the journal and by
other routine business-is to be devoted to
the consideration of measures which have
passed the House and been reported favor
ably by Senate committees. Ats o'clock
tomorrow the bill granting charter to the
Eads ship railWay-which is the unfinished
business-will be laid before the Senate.
Should this bill be passed by the Senate it
is the purpose of the friends of the Nicara-
qua bill to call up that measure as soon as
possible, holding that the rival projects to
which these two bills are designed to give
governmental recognition should be treated
alike and impartially.
Senator HaWley has given notice of his
purpose to call up forthwith one Of the two
bills to encourage the manufacture OF mod
ern ordnance, to be followed Immediately
by the other. One of these measures re-
lates to army and the other to navy ord
nance. They were introduced by Senator
Cameron in December, 1885, and were re-
ported from the committee on coast defenc-
es last May. The two measures, which are
parts of one general scheme, appropriate
SIS, ,0OO, 600 each. An amendment to the one
which relates to the army has been offered
by Senator Dolph and reported favorably
by the committee on coast defences propos-
ing further appropriation of S5,OO0,0 900 for
the construction of coast defences. The
general features of the plan embodied in
these bills and the proposed amendment
appropriating at once $2l ,000,0 600 for guns
and coast defences-are understood to meet
the almost unanimous approval of the SEN
ate, but there may be considerable diversi-
ty of opinion regarding the details. The
two bills name the Watervliet Arsenal at
West Troy, n. Y, and the Navy Yard at
nection with which gun factories for the
army and the navy respectively are author
lied to be established.
Senator Ingalls, intends to call up as soon
as possible his bill repeating the Limitation
placed upon the arrears of pension act, the
effect of which, if passed, will be to entitle
each pensioner to back pay from the date of
death or disability, regardless Of the time
when application was made. The Senate is
almost equally divided with respect to the
merits of this measure, the test vote OF last
week disclosing one majority in its favor.
Senator Hoar, who reported the judiciary
committees substitute to the House resolu-
tion for investigating the accounts of the
subsidized Pacific railroads, intends to bring
the measure before the Senate for action
during the week. He has publicly declared
his opposition to it and he will open the
debate with aspeech setting forth generally
his objections to the procrastean method of
dealing with corporate rights, and, particu-
larly his aversion to the proposed increase
! from twenty-five to forty per cent. of the net
earnings to be collected from these corpora
tions. Senator Plum has charge of the post
Office appropriation bill, which has the right
of way Whenever he may choose to call it